By Kim Hjelmgaard USA TODAY LONDON – “We saved a life today,” Patrick Hutchinson posted on a social media account after a photo of him emerged carrying a man to safety following a weekend clash here between anti-racism protesters and a suspected right-wing counter-demonstrator. READ MORE
New York Times Under growing pressure from demonstrators outraged over the police killings of African-Americans, officials across the country announced major police reforms on Monday, further galvanizing a protest movement that has led to a nationwide reckoning over systemic racism. READ MORE
Trucks will be self-driving in a few years anyway so it doesn’t matter.
There is not nearly enough Antifa to carry out an insurrection like the recent one.
The statistical data Carlson cites at the beginning of this is interesting. Black Lives Matter may be the single most powerful political party in the United States.
Journalist Zaid Jilani explains how most people have more complex views on social issues than their party affiliation suggests.
Krystal has a pretty good take on how the right-wing of the ruling class responded to the insurrection. Acknowledge the murder, put on a faux embrace of “peaceful protestors” with the usual “Dr. King was a Republican” nonsense while deflecting attention to rioters, looters, Antifa, anarchists, etc. And […]
It’s certainly possible to argue that this was a “suicide by cop” situation but, as Jim Bell has pointed out in the forum, this is still an illegal shooting under constitutional jurisprudence. A civilian wouldn’t get away with this. Krystal’s commentary in this is good. Krystal and Saagar […]
That articles like this keep appearing in the New York Times clearly indicates that the elite strategy is to protect the state by making it appear as though police state excesses are merely a racial issue, as opposed to the race issue merely being a symptom of the […]
As I would have predicted. I have said before that the constant Red Tribe/Blue Tribe bickering over Supreme Court appointments is irrelevant. Contentious social issues are decided on the basis of the prevailing consensus of the dominant factions of the power elite and general managerial class. Period. The […]
This meme really sums up most of what anyone really needs to know about both domestic politics and international relations. All of these conflicts, while real and important to their participants, are merely on-the-ground forms of tribal/sectarian warfare that mean nothing to the oligarchs and overlords. It’s the […]
The right-wing of the ruling class seems to be divided over the issue of co-optation versus repression, while the left-wing of the ruling class clearly favors co-optation and is moving aggressively to do so. The Deep State and the uppermost strata of the power elite seem to prefer […]
The Robert E. Lee statue with Rainbow flag coloring and the Black Lives Matter acronym. Probably unacceptable to all sides.
I’m not so sure that it did. What I find most fascinating about the recent low-intensity insurrection is not the insurrection itself but the near-total indifference of the ruling class combined with the immediate move of vast sectors of the ruling class to co-opt the insurgency, from the […]
While I agree with 99% of this article, I’m a bit suspicious as to why the New York Times (“Voice of the Ruling Class”-Abbie Hoffman) was willing to publish it. It seems like some kind of co-optation scheme is in the works. The left-wing of the ruling class […]
Did the Left and the neo-Confederates finally find something they can agree on? Hating on Father Abraham, lol. By Josh Brogadir WCVB5 BOSTON —The dismantling of controversial statues and monuments in the city of Boston is a mounting subject in the ongoing push for racial justice in the […]
Even Satan has a monument in his honor. By Gabbi Shaw Insider Not all monuments are universally beloved. While some simply took a while for locals to come around to, others still inspire controversy. That could be due to their subject matter, their histories, or their appearance. Monuments […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley White people hate to talk about race, even the supposedly woke ones. When they do, the entire conversation is almost inevitably governed by fear. With white conservatives, it’s usually the fear of being made irrelevant by darker bodies. […]
It is interesting how the protests have taken place in small towns, suburban areas, and deep red zones as well as in the cities. My best guess is that it’s because the police state is large enough and entrenched enough that at this point virtually everyone has a […]
Reminds me of a co-worker I once had whose ex-husband was allowed to remain on the SWAT team as a sniper while she had a restraining order on him for stalking and domestic violence.
Most of this sounds like capitalist class co-optation efforts, celebrity self-promotion, symbolic gestures, token reformism, and totalitarian humanist opportunism. In other words, nothing much at all has changed, at least not yet. BBC There have been protests around the world over the way police treat black people and […]
Paul Gottfried recently published a new anthology through Cornell to which I have a contribution. A collection of high-brow conservative scholars (plus crazy anarchist me) explains why the FOX News-type conservatives and neocons are a bunch of scam artists.
If these FOX News reactionaries were as “anti-establishment” or “anti-big government” as they pretend they would be creating “autonomous zones” of their own. What a shame they’re really just mouthpieces for the right-wing of the ruling class.
If only it were true. Roadblocks, checkpoints, barricades, armed vigilantes: Anyone with a functioning brain knows this is unacceptable.
Indeed it is. But not in the way that Carlson means. This is hilarious. During the heydey of the militia movement of the 1990s, there were “freemen” and “sovereign citizen” groups that did stuff like this.
The most interesting aspect of the insurrection has been the way that the actual Deep State and MIC leadership has told Trump to fuck off over the idea of using US troops to suppress the uprising. This confirms my longstanding argument that the formal political government, including the […]
Obviously, I’m getting old because I didn’t recognize a single one of these celebrities.
I have the unique perspective of favoring the autonomous zone in Seattle AND the Bundys’ standoff AND the Antifa threats against ICE. I like Krystal’s comment that “if you’re against the police state, be against the police state.” Krystal and Saagar discuss the bizarre response from Gov. Jay […]
Krystal’s “capitalists are going to capitalist” line is hilarious. Krystal and Saagar discuss Starbuck’s ban on Black Lives Matter merchandise for their employees, Apple CEO Tim Cook announces $100M commitment for racial equality and justice.
By Stratton J. Davis Looking at the daily news these past couples of weeks one may have the pessimistic opinion that what was left of liberty will soon be gone. Even before the recent riots, which has President Trump and his GOP goons threatening the US people with […]
By Alan Bickley Ludwig von Mises Centre According to The Daily Mail, Madeline Odent is the Curator of the Royston Museum in Hertfordshire. This museum is funded by Royston Council. In the past few days, Mrs Odent has taken to Twitter, giving expert advice on how to use […]
This George Floyd/Derek Chauvin thing is starting to sound like the Botham Jean/Amber Guyger situation where it seems like more than police malevolence/incompetence was involved. My guess is that the former co-worker of these two was paid a visit and told to keep their mouth shut.
Western civilization doesn’t really exist anymore. It died during the two world wars. “The West” today is basically just the American Empire, and it’s not the America of Nathaniel Hawthorne or Mark Twain. It’s the America of McDonald’s, Wal-Mart, and Amazon. Western Europe is the most far gone, […]
Recent events were the equivalent of a large scale prison riot with inmates attacking the guards (kinda sorta) but with the prison administration and prison labor profiteers remaining unscathed.
The right-wing uses BLM, Antifa, and an-coms as all-purposes bogeymen in the same way the left-wing uses white nationalists and Russians for the same purpose. Probably the most radical thing that has come out of the uprising so far has been the actual burning of police precincts and […]
They will be if the state decides they are an actual threat. For the CHAZ idea to develop into an actual revolutionary situation, it would have to spread very rapidly and come to dominate significant bodies of geographical territory in North America, with significant numbers of sympathetic allies […]
And the right-wing wants to declare Antifa a terrorist group. Fortunately, under actual US law, only foreign organizations can be declared terrorist groups. Otherwise, Black Lives Matter or the National Rifle Association could also be declared terrorist groups. The KKK is about as relevant to contemporary politics as […]
Attacking police and/or military memorials is another tactically bad idea. The US regime is never going to be defeated through either voting for do-gooders or in a Third World-like armed struggle by radical insurgents, left or right, except perhaps on a peripheral level. The only possible path to […]
My take on this would be that while I don’t agree with its corporatist and often crony-capitalist economic model, NASCAR is a voluntary organization and can set any standards for participation they wish. They are legitimate is banning the Confederate flag so as not to offend their black […]
To be fair, the people doing this seem to be outside the Anglosphere and don’t understand the cultural significance of this in the Atlanticist world. By Carly Stern Daily Mail
By Troy Southgate I see that sections of the American Right are now accusing Bogeyman Soros of helping to bring about a ‘colour revolution’ on home soil. How convenient. That’s how it works, you see. The Left gets taken in by the lies that have been generated by […]
If I were a political comedy writer, I couldn’t make up stuff any better than this. I would indeed agree that this would make for the ideal neocon/neoliberal ruling class unity regime. It is clear that ruling class elements, whatever their differences, realize dissent is growing from all […]
I totally disagree with Laura here, but not for the usual reasons. So far I have actually seen very little “canceling America” going on in the present uprising. Unlike Berkeley or Charlottesville, which were low-grade sports riots carried out by rookie-league middle-class gangs, the present uprising is a […]
“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” -Lenin (attributed) As a Machiavellian, I’ve got to hand it to Amazon on this one. This is slick. Working every angle. If only our insurgents were so conniving. By Gin Armstrong and Derek Seidman Eyes on […]
Thank goodness Donald Trump is President, a figure that is widely hated, disliked, or disdained by all but a relatively small number of hard-core supporters. He’s an easy figure to hate, especially for the Left, and symbolizes ruling class excess. It would suck if during the present moment […]
It does not matter one iota what George Floyd’s criminal record is. Terms like “guilt,” “innocence,” “crime,” “law,” “justice,” etc. are System terms, not ours. One of the things we need to take from them is a monopoly on the definition of these terms. The fight against the […]
This kind of stuff may be a psychological victory for some people, but at the cost of alienating rural southern whites and Italian-Americans, many of whom have had plenty of run-ins with cops or the state. Think strategically, folks. Pushing inter-tribal warfare is a bad idea. If people […]
Once again, the pathetically limited nature of “liberal” thinking is revealed. What matters is not the names of military bases. What matters is the dissolution of the military-industrial complex, national security state, and imperialist empire for which it is the enforcer arm. Liberals typically think all of that […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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